Exploration and empire; the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West, by William H. Goetzmann. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goetzmann, William H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--United States.

West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.

West (U.S.).

Medical Subjects:

History--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 656, xviii p.) illus., maps.

Edition:

[1st ed.]

Place of Publication:

New York, Knopf, 1966.

Contents:

PART ONE: Exploration and Imperialism: 1805-45

CHAPTER I: Westward the Clash of Empires

CHAPTER II: The Rediscovery of the Southwest

CHAPTER III: Canada Moves South

CHAPTER IV: The Mountain Men

CHAPTER V: Something More Than Beaver

CHAPTER VI: The Romantic Horizon

PART TWO: The Great Reconnaissance and Manifest Destiny: 1845-60

CHAPTER VII: When the Eagle Screamed: The Explorer as Diplomat in the Final Clash of Imperial Energies

CHAPTER VIII: In Search of an Iron Trail

CHAPTER IX: The Great Reconnaissance

PART THREE: Exploration and the Great Surveys: 1860-1900

Chapter X: The New Mountain Men: California's Geological Survey

Chapter XI: The Army Way

Chapter XII: The West of Clarence King

CHAPTER XIII: The Last Stand of the Army Explorer

CHAPTER XIV: F.W. Hayden: Gilded Age Explorer

CHAPTER XV: John Wesley Powell: The Explorer as Reformer

CHAPTER XVI Epilogue: Beyond the Explorer's Frontier

Notes:

"A note on the sources": p. 649-656.

ISBN:

0-393-00881-9